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Building a Specialized Local Workforce: Memorial Hospital Medical Assistance Apprenticeship Program

Finding and retaining a trained workforce in rural hospitals is challenging. Like other New England and rural medical centers, Memorial Hospital in North Conway, NH, has had an increasing need for clinical practice team members, especially medical assistants (MA). Local programs were not producing enough graduates to meet their [...]

Building a Specialized Local Workforce: Memorial Hospital Medical Assistance Apprenticeship Program2023-06-12T18:29:23-04:00

Reimagining Hospital Gowns: The NewGown™

Sara Cox, CNRN, tries on one of the first NewGown prototypes in fall 2020. Patients with an altered mental status are a common sight on the orthopedic, neurological and trauma units at Maine Medical Center (MMC) where Sara Cox, CNRN, Neuroscience Patient Navigator, has seen [...]

Reimagining Hospital Gowns: The NewGown™2023-06-12T18:29:05-04:00

A Vision for Rural Maine: Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Using Artificial Intelligence

(from left) Brian Nolan, MD, Billijoe Prech-Child, MA, Brianna Walker, MA, and Sadie Kenney, MA, of Western Maine Health with the retinal camera used in the innovative diabetic retinopathy screening service A shortage of local eye care specialists in the Norway, Maine, area has led to an [...]

A Vision for Rural Maine: Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Using Artificial Intelligence2023-06-12T18:28:50-04:00

Helping Newborns in Distress: Augmented Reality Neonatal Resuscitation Simulation

Michael Ferguson, MD, MTeach, demonstrating the augmented reality simulation of a newborn in distress. Photo: Black Fly Media In rural Maine areas, outside of Portland, babies born in distress are six times more likely to have significant and adverse complications, which can be fatal. While [...]

Helping Newborns in Distress: Augmented Reality Neonatal Resuscitation Simulation2023-06-12T18:28:33-04:00

From Salad Bar to Grocery Store

Some of the grocery items available to care team members at the LincolnHealth grab-and-go grocery store Like many other MaineHealth facilities, LincolnHealth in Damariscotta, ME, could only serve food to care team members during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tom Schwarz, Director of the LincolnHealth Miles Café, and his [...]

From Salad Bar to Grocery Store2023-06-12T18:38:53-04:00

Saving Lives Anytime, Any Place: The Rescue Vac

“True emergencies are not convenient,” says Will Connolly, RN. “They do not happen where or when you want them to.” Will Connolly, RN with an early Rescue Vac prototype at Maine Medical Center For 13 years, Will has triaged and cared for countless patients working as a [...]

Saving Lives Anytime, Any Place: The Rescue Vac2023-06-12T18:38:35-04:00

An App for Patient Peace of Mind: navigatER

Samir Haydar, DO, MPH, helping a patient enroll in the navigatER app at Maine Medical Center Six years ago, while waiting to sit down for brunch at a local restaurant, Samir Haydar, DO, MPH, attending Emergency Physician at Maine Medical Center (MMC), had an innovative [...]

An App for Patient Peace of Mind: navigatER2023-06-12T18:37:47-04:00
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